En route to hearing Ed Miliband speak I stopped off at The Barbican to see the Bauhaus exhibition (it closes on 12th August and is open most days till late).
This is a sumptuous exhibition and definitely a must-see. Bauhaus was born in Weimar in 1919 - home to Goethe and Schiller - it moved to Dessau in 1925 and then finally came to rest in Berlin where the Nazis closed it in 1933.
The artists, photographers, poets, architects and designers were the finest in the world - Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Feininger, Klee, Kandinsky, van Doesburg and Moholy-Nagy all lectured there. It was the intellectual centre of European art for over a decade.